The Egalitarian

Let’s Highlight Keila Rodriguez

Tonya V Hall, Student Writer • May 5, 2022

Houston Community College has a wide variety of cultures and classes. Students of all ages and students of all walks of life attend with hopes of ending each semester better than they were once they...

Tonya Hall Meets World: A Student Mother-Stylist-Agent Achieving Higher Education

Keila Rodriguez • May 4, 2022

The college classroom is a vast melting pot of students. At HCC Central, I have encountered many fresh high school graduates eager to immerse themselves in the college culture, expressing themselves unapologetically...

Taking the long way home: A graduation story

Brizeyda Monterroso • April 29, 2021

This is a story years in the making, years more than what it was supposed to take. That is what comes to mind when I think of my graduation from Houston Community College. I can try to shift the...

Our Graduate Glad

Rhiannon Brast • December 3, 2020

With Covid being so prevalent we want to honor the graduates here at HCC who have put in so much hard work and dedication to get to their degree! I am getting my certificate in vocational nursing. The...

Funtella Moore’s Graduation Story

Joel Valdes, Staff Writer • December 1, 2020

When Funtella Moore’s oldest son graduated in 2018, the excitement that she saw in him as he walked across the stage inspired her to go back to school. This was not an easy decision to make, especially...

Graduating in 2020

Stephanie Medrano • November 25, 2020

Let me start by saying that this has been a hard year for everyone and I'm very lucky for the way things were able to work out in my favor and I get to get my associates this year and transfer to UH. I've...

My Graduation Story

Joel Valdes, Staff Writer • November 24, 2020

“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” This quote, adapted from the poem by Robert Burns, has stayed engrained deep inside my head throughout my college experience. My plans have been...

Graduation and Transfer

Rhiannon Brast, Editor • November 18, 2020

In December 2020 I will have finished my years at HCC and will be moving on to Texas A&M University ( Gig em Aggies). With that being said, I am extremely concerned with how the transition is going...

Going to college as an “older” student

Taliah Richards • July 2, 2020

How old is too old to go to college? As a person who spends a lot of time on different message boards and social media, I see variations of this question all the time. Is 40 too old to go back to school?...

Daughter motivated Watts to not give up

Watts gives her account of overcoming loss; being motivated by daughter to succeed

Jamie Watts • May 22, 2020

Hi, my name is Jamie Watts. I will be a Spring 2020 graduate with my associate of arts in multidisciplinary studies. My journey wasn’t easy at all. I lost my mom in 1998. It’s been a very hard...

Back on track

Perez tells her story of perseverance en route to earning a certificate in audio engineering.

Raquel Perez • May 22, 2020

I got my certificate in audio engineering! I am 30-year-old mother of seven. I dropped out of high school and became a teen mom of twin boys at 16. It took me years to get back on track but I...

Barack Obama will headline televised prime-time commencement for Class of 2020

May 5, 2020

NEW YORK — Former President Barack Obama will deliver a televised prime-time commencement address for the high school Class of 2020 during an hour-long event that will also feature LeBron James, Malala...